Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Rachel Andrew. Vitaly Friedman. Scott Jehl.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives. Topics include web design, security, web-based tools and workflows and more.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

It’s a community effort , made possible by artists and designers from all across the globe who challenge their creative skills to cater for some good vibes on your screens. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves. Submit a wallpaper!

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Ideally, the design process should take into account the ways in which clients might wish to share content from social media. But that doesn’t mean they should.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Sustainable Web Design.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. If we have a responsive design, we will want the image to stay within the margins of the container, using the CSS below for that: img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; }. The change of design.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To get you in the right mood for December — and the holiday season, of course — artists and designers from across the globe once again got their ideas bubbling and created festive and inspiring wallpaper designs for you. ” — Designed by LibraFire from Serbia. Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Sweden. Join in! ?.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them. Designers can use WebP lossy encoding on RGB colors and lossless encoding on images with transparent backgrounds (alpha channel). Samsung Internet. Opera Mini.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. A turning point for many front-end developers came when some major players announced they would cease Internet Explorer (IE11) support: All Microsoft 365 web apps stopped supporting IE11 on August 21, 2021. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SWR does not just revalidate the data once, however, you can configure SWR to revalidate the data on an interval, when the tab regains focus, when a client reconnects to the Internet or programmatically. Whilst I believe Scrapbook handles this update well, it’s an important consideration when designing your user’s experience.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Also, the content-security-policy header has frame-ancestors directive which prevents this. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Is there an issue with your Internet connection? Vitaly Friedman. Part 5: Perfect Slider.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. My most interesting picture this week : A green, purple, yellow & orange Steinway. Arts & Society. Recent Entries.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. More after jump! Government.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript is less forgiving.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. When users browse the internet to visit a website, the LCP image’s loading is often delayed by the lazy loading technique, whether applied by native lazy loading or a JavaScript library. Jump to table of contents ↬.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. JavaScript was designed to run in lock-step with the browser’s main rendering loop. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. cents per gigabyte for storage versus 9 cents per gigabyte of data transfer out to the Internet at the time of writing).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. As the Google Fonts API becomes more widely used, it is likely visitors to your site or page will already have any Google fonts used in your design in their browser cache. — Ilya Grigorik, Web Font Optimization.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. It is designed to measure the visual stability of the page — basically how much it jumps around as new content slots into place. CrUX is Chrome only.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. I enabled Chrome. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. I am a part of one Slack community for designers and developers ( BoagWorld ), and I posted a question there. I’m grateful to have the Internet and developer communities where we can all ask for help, get answers from professionals, and solve problems together. More after jump! The JavaScript.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The original design of the GIF format was to provide a way to compress multiple images inside a single file using a lossless compression algorithm (called LZW compression) which meant they could be downloaded in a reasonably short space of time, even on slow connections. But the GIF format was not originally intended for animation.

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